J2010104 Practice of the Creative Engineering Education using an Autonomous Mobile Robot

The Hokkaido Institute of Technology (HIT) established the Faculty of Advanced Engineering in 2008. The overall objective of the faculty was to offer a variety of curriculums, optimizing the specializations in each of the three departments, while also taking advantage of students' aptitude, for the purpose of ultimately cultivating engineers capable of contributing to the vitalization of both Hokkaido and Japan. Specifically, one of the departments, the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering offers a 2-course system: a Robotics Course and an Engineering Course. The Robotics Course offers two Major Course subjects utilizing Autonomous Mobile Robots: Tutorial of Robotics I and II. This paper aims to verify the effectiveness of these exercise style subjects as Creative Engineering Education. Effectiveness was evaluated considering the contents of each subject, an evaluation questionnaire on the education for students.